Collected stories

Book 2020

This career-spanning collection of Moore's work showcases her talent for leavening tragedy with humor, for blending sorrow with subversive wit. The stories are peopled by a variety of lost souls grappling with pain or disappointment. -- Adapted from jacket.

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Short stories, American

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Everyman's library Everyman's library ; 393

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ISBN:

9780375712388
0375712380

Description:

xxviii, 748 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:

"A Borzoi book" -- Verso title page
"This edition is published in the UK by arrangement with Faber and Faber Ltd." -- Verso title page

Contents:

Agnes of Iowa
Amahl and the night visitors: a guide to the tenor of love
Beautiful grade
Charades
Childcare
Community life
Dance in America
Debarking
Escape from the invasion of the love-killers
Foes
Four calling birds, three French hens
Go like this
How
How to be another woman
How to become a writer
How to talk to your mother (notes)
The Jewish hunter
Joy
The juniper tree
The kid's guide to divorce
Like life
Paper losses
Paris
People like that are the only people here: canonical babbling in peed onk
Places to look for your mind
Real estate
Referential
Starving again
Subject to search
Terrific mother
Thank you for having me
To fill
Two boys
Vissi d'arte
What is seized
What you want to do fine
Which is more than I can say about some people
Willing
Wings
You're ugly too

LCCN:

2019055011

Control Number:

3024223

Other Authors:

Groff, Lauren, writer of introduction

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